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This report shows how the Cable television industry is gearing up to challenge the satellite and Telco based service companies by jumping in with both feet with a new IP-based architecture.  The industry calls it their Next Generation Network Architecture - NGNA.

Along with NGNA are several other moves and issues they are dealing with, such as the CableCARD, interactive TV and government regulations.

This report is aimed at managers and strategists, and addresses these questions:

• What is NGNA?

• What is OCAP?

• Summarizes the CableCARD (a more complete report on this subject is planned)

• How does Cable compare to Telco IPTV?

• How does Cable compare to Satellite?

• What regulations are the Cable industry concerned about?

Note: This report previously had a shorter title that was less clear.

Table of Contents

1     Executive Summary

2     Industry Stats

3     NGNA – Next Generation Network Architecture

3.1        Existing Architecture

3.2        New Elements

3.3        Video distribution to Head Ends

3.4        Modular CMTS

3.5        Digital Simulcast

3.6        DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway

3.7        Channel Bonding

3.8        Remapping QAM

3.9        Higher QAM and 1 GHz

3.10      MPEG4 AVC

3.11      Smarter use of VOD

4     CableCARD

4.1        One-Way

4.2        Two-Way

5     OCAP

5.1        ACAP

5.2        OCAP vs MHP

5.3        Worldwide View

6     Voice over IP

6.1        Mobility

7     Cable “IPTV” vs. Telco IPTV

7.1        Cable Bandwidth

7.2        Telco Bandwidth

7.3        DVR Tactics

7.4        iTV

7.5        Video Phone

8     Cable vs. Satellite

8.1        Micro-Markets

8.2        DVR

8.3        Bandwidth

8.4        iTV

8.5        VoIP Interference

8.6        Movie Downloads

8.7        Games on Demand

8.8        Home Security and Control

9     Regulatory & Legislative Issues

9.1        Indecency

9.2        Omnibus Law

9.3        VoIP

9.4        IPTV

9.5        Universal Coverage

Figures and Tables

Figure 1 – Basic analog and premium analog U.S. cable subscribers, and total number of U.S. television households.

Figure 2 – U.S. digital services: Broadband Internet (Cable vs. DSL), and Digital Television (Cable vs. Satellite)

Figure 3 - Existing simplified cable topology

Figure 4 - Figure 5 – Simplified Modular CMTS topology

Figure 6 – 16 QAM

Figure 7- Example CableCARD from Scientific Atlanta and Motorola

Figure 8 – Digital Cable Ready (DCR) Logo

Figure 9 – Simplified OCAP architecture

Figure 10 – Bill Gates with Conan O’Brien at CES 05,  introducing Microsoft TV

Figure 11 – Motorola’s Ojo VoIP Video Phone

Figure 12 –Map showing Comcast’s Spotlight Zones

Figure 13 – New FCC Chairman Kevin Martin  being interviewed by Stuart Varney, Fox News

Figure 14 – NCTA’s Dan Craig and Dan Brenner,  lobbyist for law and regulatory issues.

Table 1 – Some unusual Digital Broadcast Channels

Table 2 – HDTV channels